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Kanstantsin Muzhau/ MUZHEV

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

 

I am a multidisciplinary artist. Through sculpture, performance, and video art,

I explore various social processes such as immigration, war, and the search for

identity, as well as personal states like loneliness, destruction, and reincarnation. 

In my conceptual creations, tragedy meets comedy, always balancing on the edge of comprehension. 

By clearing landfills of debris, I use recycled materials – wood, metal, or discarded objects. 

Creating polychromatic sculptures and installations from them, I breathe new life into old things.

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AWARDS

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2024 - Grant,  Projekt ODWAGA, WOLNOŚĆ, WYOBRAŹNIA Warsaw, Poland

2009 - International contest“Art Week”. II prize in “Sculpture”nomination.Moscow, Russia

2009 - Festival of digital art and video art “Terranova”,  National Library Gallery. II prize .Minsk, Belarus

2006 - Medal for “high quality sculpture” Festival of ice and snow sculptures in Harbin.China

2006 - First prize in the Festival of avant-garde fashion “Mammoth”. .Minsk, Belarus

2006 - Awarded a Scholarship of a Special Fund of President of Belarus

2005 - The first prize in “Sculpture” nomination. The First international competition for young architects “Leonardo 2005”

The project of the “Block” association “XI centuries of Belorussian history”.Minsk, Belarus

2004 - Jury Prize The Fifth International Festival of snow and ice sculpture “Snow fantasy”. Murmansk, Russia

2000 - The first prize in the category “Avant-garde Art”,, Minsk, Belarus

2000 -  First prize in sculpture and a special prize of the company “Schwarzkopf & Henkel”

Republican exhibition “New Names”, Minsk, Belarus

 

BIOGRAPHY

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Born in Minsk, Belarus (February 2, 1977)

1997 - Art College named after A.K. Glebova to the department
sculpture, Minsk, Belarus

2006 - Belarusian State Academy of Arts, art faculty, sculpture department, Minsk, Belarus

2011 - membership of the Belarusian Union of Designers, Minsk, Belarus

2020 - membership of the Belarusian Union of Artists, Minsk, Belarus

2021 - Emigrated to Poland 

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2022 - Joint exhibition of the Muzhev family “Vertical Songs and Shadows of the future” at Oxplace. Warsaw

2021 - «Vertical songs», National Polotsk museum, Belarus

2010 - The Project «Elementarium III», Contemporary Art Gallery ў

Minsk, Belarus

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2024 - Performance CAST IRON Krakowskie Przedmieście Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Warsaw, Poland

2023 - Performance SKLEP Museum of Free Belarus.Warsaw, Poland

2022 - Joint exhibition of the Muzhev family “Vertical Songs and Shadows of the future” at Oxplace, Warsawa, Poland

2022 - Group exhibition «Connected Art#2». ZANNARTSTUDIO, Warsaw, Poland

2021- Joint exhibition of the Muzhev family “Vertical Songs and Shadows of the future» National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve.

2021 - International Festival of Contemporary Art "Art-Minsk", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2020 - International Festival of Contemporary Art "Art-Minsk", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2020 - Art Gallery of Mikhail Savitsky, Belarusian artists in cooperation with Salvador Dali's Secret Writing, Minsk, Belarus

2018 - International Festival of Contemporary Art "Art-Minsk", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2018 - International Festival of Performative Art. «PERFORMENSK», Minsk, Belarus

2017- The Second Belarusian Post-Sculpture Festival, Memorial Museum-Workshop of Z.I. Azgur, Minsk, Belarus

2017- Festival "Ghosts of Tacheles", Minsk, Belarus

2017- Performance, Art Gallery of the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve, Polotsk, Belarus

2017- Art Gallery of the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve, Polotsk, Belarus

2017- Art-festival "Chronotop", Capraruny,, Belarus

2017 - VII International forum of theatrical art. "TEART", BELARUS OPEN.PROGRAM OF THE BELARUSIAN PERFORMANCE, PENATRA (C) TION-VIII, Minsk, Belarus

2016 - VI International Forum of Dramatic Art. "TEART", BELARUS OPEN PROGRAM OF THE BELARUSIAN PERFORMANCE, PENATRA (C) TION-VII, Minsk, Belarus

2016 - Art-festival "Chronotop", Captarune, Belarus

2016 - The first Belarusian festival of post-sculpture, Memorial Museum-Workshop Z.I. Azgur, Minsk, Belarus

2016 - sculpture "SKVARENTINO". The project "Art-islands" Minsk, Belarus

2015 - Festival "Days of art performance in Lviv" Lviv, Ukraine

2015 - Exhibition of "The Da Vinci Inventions", National Art Museum, Minsk, Belarus  

2015 - Museum Night, Vitebsk Centre for Contemporary Art, Belarus

2015 - The Art Gallery of the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve, Polotsk, Belarus

2015 - Exhibition "Autumn Salon", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2015 - Exhibition "Project", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2015 - Festival "arTREShtkі" , the upper city, Minsk, Belarus

2015 - Installation of the sculpture "Wa-la" at the site of the memorial museum-workshop ZI Azgur, Minsk, Belarus

2014 - The exhibition contemporary Belarusian art «Avant-gARTe. , Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2014 - Festival performance PenAtra (C) tion-5, Center for Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus

2013 - Real Festival of Contemporary Art "Dah-collapse" Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus

2013 - Exhibition project «MUZHEV (a)» National Beauty School, Minsk, Belarus

2013 - International Festival of Contemporary ArtGOGOLFEST 13, Program of the Belarusian Performance-art the, Kiev, Ukraine 

2012 - III Biennale of Painting, Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2012 - The exhibition "LitArt", Palace of Arts, Minsk

2012 - Participation in exhibition «Abstract 2012", Center for Contemporary Art, Vitebsk, Belarus

2012 - Night of Museums, the Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus

2011 - 4 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2010 - Design week in Vilnius, Lithuania

Participated in nearly 90 exhibitions